Whiskey Wit

People come to Woodford Reserve and Jim Beam and Evan Williams because these are brands that their family has enjoyed for generations, and they want to ‘come home’ – to see where it’s made and walk in the footsteps of…

The cocktail bar – even the fantastically inventive kind – is unlikely to reach the heights of a top restaurant. Part of its appeal is also its fatal weakness: the more you taste, the less well you taste. “Don’t Guzzle…

I am quite sure that we are the only store in America where you can buy a gun, country ham, beer, and a pound of C4 plastic explosive. With the proper credentials, of course. Patrick Hayden, owner of Keene’s Depot…

The literary critic and language expert H.L. Mencken put together his own list of synonyms for the word ‘drunk.’ They included: snooted, stewed, jugged, jagged and pifflicated. From “Our Longing for Lists,” an op-ed piece in the Sept. 2 New…

My predecessor started the passport program in 2007, and 186 people completed the Kentucky Bourbon Trail that year. In five years we went from 186 people to nearly 12,000. We can’t print T-shirts fast enough. Eric Gregory, president of the…